Latin America and Caribbean in Review

This monthly gallery features some of the top photojournalism made by Associated Press photographers documenting Latin America and the Caribbean during May.

Floodwaters hover under highways amid heavy rain in Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul state, Brazil, May 3, 2024. (AP Photo/Carlos Macedo)

Spix's Macaws perch inside a cage at the Sao Paulo Zoo in Brazil, May 3, 2024. After being absent from the wild for almost two decades, about 20 of the endangered birds were reintroduced in northern Bahia state in 2022. (AP Photo/Andre Penner)

Relatives mourn over the coffin of murder victim Saintus Leodens during his funeral service in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, May 25, 2024. (AP Photo/Odelyn Joseph)

A young woman cooks tortillas over a fire in her kitchen in Plan de Ayala, a Tojolabal village in the Las Margaritas municipality of Chiapas state, Mexico, May 2, 2024. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)

Protesters carry balloons to a march on International Workers' Day in Santiago, Chile, May 1, 2024. (AP Photo/Matias Basualdo)

Volleyball players from China, top, and South Korea line up at the start of their Women's Nations League match in Rio de Janeiro, May 14, 2024. (AP Photo/Bruna Prado)

Tourists swim in the cenote "Dos Ojos," or Two Eyes, on the outskirts of Playa del Carmen, Mexico, March 9, 2024. These glowing sinkhole lakes, known as cenotes, are a part of one of Mexico's natural wonders: A fragile system of thousands of subterranean caverns, rivers, and lakes that wind beneath Mexico's southern Yucatan peninsula. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

A police officer adjusts her helmet near an anti-government protest against food scarcity at soup kitchens and economic reforms proposed by President Javier Milei, in Buenos Aires, Argentina, May 7, 2024. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)

A woman attends a march demanding the enforcement of rights for Afro-Brazilians and the demarcation of Quilombos, territories where communities descended from slaves live in Brasilia, Brazil, May 16, 2024. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)

Shoes used with "La Morenada" dance costumes are for sale ahead of the annual Feast of the Lord of Great Power in La Paz, Bolivia, May 22, 2024. The week-long celebration showcases Andean folklore. (AP Photo/Juan Karita)

A child dressed as a police officer steers his toy behind his parents to a demonstration seeking justice for police killed in the line of duty in Santiago, Chile, April 27, 2024. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix)

Friends and family help a quinceañera prepare for her photo session at Colon square in the Zona Colonial neighborhood of Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, May 15, 2024. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)

Supporters of Ecuadorean President Daniel Noboa hold cut-outs of him near the National Assembly where he gives his first report to the nation after six months in office in Quito, Ecuador, May 24, 2024. (AP Photo/Dolores Ochoa)

Buildings cover Gardi Sugdub Island that is part of the San Blas archipelago off Panama's Caribbean coast, May 25, 2024. Due to rising sea levels, about 300 Guna Indigenous families will relocate to the mainland in new, government-built homes. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)

Argentine President Javier Milei gestures to people attending a ceremony marking the 214th anniversary of the May Revolution, which marked the start of the country's independence from Spain, in Cordoba, Argentina, May 25, 2024. (AP Photo/Nicolas Aguilera)

Some wearing Lucha Libre wrestling masks, supporters of opposition presidential candidate Xochitl Galvez chant her name at her closing campaign rally in Los Reyes la Paz on the outskirts of Mexico City, May 29, 2024. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)

Police escort Guatemalan journalist Jose Ruben Zamora to court in handcuffs for a hearing in Guatemala City, May 15, 2024. Zamora has spent nearly two years locked up in prison, allowed only one hour a day in the sunlight. His money laundering conviction was tossed out, and a judge ordered his conditional release to await a new trial, but the 67-year-old founder of the newspaper El Periodico never made it out while there are more cases against him. There are no trial dates for any of the cases. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)

Young Venezuelan migrants Angel, left, and Gael play in a tree after baseball practice in a public park in Comas on the outskirts of Lima, Peru, May 9, 2024. Immigrants, mainly Venezuelans, have opened five baseball academies in Peru's capital. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia)

A paratrooper carries a snake before marching in the Independence Day parade in Asuncion, Paraguay, May 14, 2024. (AP Photo/Jorge Saenz)

Opposition leader Maria Corina Machado is lifted onto the stage as she arrives to help launch the campaign for the opposition’s presidential candidate Edmundo González Urrutia in La Victoria, Venezuela, May 18, 2024. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)

A girl plays a jump rope game at a school that is housing residents displaced by gang violence in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, May 15, 2024. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)

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Lead photo: Footprints create the shape of a heart in a snow-covered rugby field in Santiago, Chile, May 8, 2024. (AP Photo/Matias Basualdo)

This gallery was curated by photojournalist Fernando Llano based in Mexico City.